From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jul 13 20:51:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from majordomo2.umd.edu (majordomo2.umd.edu [128.8.10.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C816F37BDF7; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:51:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (root@rac10.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.150]) by majordomo2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA14232; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:51:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac10.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA29803; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:51:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (howardjp@localhost) by rac10.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA29798; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:51:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200007140351.XAA29798@rac10.wam.umd.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: rac10.wam.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: "Rolling Your Own Port" Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:51:29 -0400 From: James Howard Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Faced with the task of porting a huge amount of custom software to FreeBSD, I chose to chance to write an article on general Port making. I documented the exact steps taken in porting three very different kind of programs. One is just a custom program, one is GNU Configure based, and the third is just a C file. The result is called "Rolling Your Own Port." There are DVI, HTML, LaTeX, LyX, PDF, Plain Text, and PostScript versions available at http://www.wam.umd.edu/~howardjp/rollyourownport/ dor review. I would appreciate it if a few people looked it over looking for any problems you may see. Anything wrong with language, grammar, incorrect information, etc. should be sent to me so I can fix it. The actual ports themselves were submitted as ports/19906, ports/19907, and ports/19908. Thanks, Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message